Thursday, June 10, 2010

berbersinmoroccomet said...

Myriel, You had a great presentation, I liked that brought in different things such as the carpet, which led us to a different topic to speak about in class>

Do the Berber Women do the pottery in their homes and then send it to the "Terre de Femmes" or do they live there?

Answer: Terres de Femmes is an organization and it is also like a store. So the Berber women make the pottery in their own villages then a worker from Terres de Femmes comes by when it is time and they collect the pottery. They bring it back and sell it and give some of the money to the women who made it.
BerbersinMoroccoHBH said...

Hadi, Your keynote and your information are very good. I liked the carpet and jewelry you brought.

Q: Does Terre des Femmes only support Berber women or even Moroccan women?

Answer: Terres de Femmes helps women that are in distress or that are far away from a city or place like that. These women are usually Berber so yes Terres de Femmes supports only Berber women. If it was not Berber I would not have used it for research.
berbersinmoroccocem said...

I liked how you told us what makes a expenive carpt and why. I also agree with you that it is one of the few things man made.

Question: If the Berber carpets were not man made how will this impact the Berbers?

Answer: I think it will impact the Berbers because if it became mass produced then many Berbers would lose their jobs. They would lose their jobs because companies would only need one machine to make thousands of carpets. Also I think it would affect them because they would lose their culture. The carpets would no longer be original Berber carpets and if the carpet tradition get lost then the others will get lost too.
berbersinmoroccoapaj said...

Your presentation was very good. Learning the ways to tell the different carpets from the different regions was very interesting.
Question: Why do you think Berbers shouldn't change to chemical dyes, wouldn't it be easier?

Answer: I agree with you that it would be easier but that is not the point. If they started using chemical dyes then they would lose their culture because they would realize that chemical dyes are easier and then soon after they would start using machines and in the end there would be no such thing as an original Berber carpet. So they should not use dyes so they can preserve their culture.

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